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Milk Of Paradise: A History of Opium

Author: Lucy Inglis.

Milk Of Paradise: A History of Opium

Author: Lucy Inglis.

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Item #: D32796
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Pegasus
ISBN: 9781643130552
Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. Taking a journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, Lucy Inglis traces how opiates have influenced ... More
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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. Taking a journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, Lucy Inglis traces how opiates have influenced medicine, literature, warfare, finance, and law enforcement.


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